" Greenpeace Gets New Wind in its Sails"

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Following is from: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52109

By Pavol Stracansky

GDANSK, Poland, Jul 10, 2010 (IPS) - Exactly 25 years after French secret agents sank its flagship and killed one of its crew, Greenpeace has begun construction of a new Rainbow Warrior. The group’s leaders say its environmental campaigning is needed more than ever.

The new ship will be the group’s most environmentally friendly vessel in its almost 40-year history.

Greenpeace leaders say that the third Rainbow Warrior is not just an example of environmentally-friendly engineering but a symbol of global campaigning against environmental abuse.

Starting the construction work with a traditional keel-laying ceremony in the Polish port of Gdansk Saturday (Jul. 10), Greenpeace head Dr Kumi Naidoo, said: "Since setting sail in 1978 the Rainbow Warrior has been on the frontline of challenging environmental abuse. She is an icon of non-violent direct action and a beacon of hope for millions of people around the world. More than ever the world needs hope, it needs action, it needs a Rainbow Warrior."

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1. Interesting to note, not one US "news" site has posted this, for the obvious reasons.

IPS News is on the side of Greenpeace and humanity and life in general, and had a writer in Gdansk who covered the event. Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera, several Australian ans New Zealand news outlets including DU's favorite, Scoop, http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1007/S00121.htm , but none so far in the US craportist media so far, according to a Google News search: http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&ncl=djj5gvimBAe_GbMSjG5WkQyvCIL-M

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2. So Greenpeace got a new boat?

Yay? Someone/some company/something getting a new boat just doesn't sound all that newsworthy to me.

Honestly, Greenpeace getting a new boat registers about as much excitement to me as tepid bathwater. If it was the Coast Guard or Exxon or whomever got a new boat, not very many people would care either.

Sometimes environmentalists feel that things they do HAVE to be paid attention to no matter how mundane or insignificant they are. That is why they sometimes come across as "buffoons" to non-environmentalists. The nons just don't care and find it silly when the environmentalists get all in an uproar over mundane things.

Now if Greenpeace were to use this new boat to save some species of whale from extinction in some special way, now that would deserve to be newsworthy.

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3. Your new boat is here, keep rowin'.